Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-08

| globe, but old Adam is driven with
curb. and the net income of results
high. A great deal of sound grain j
garnered, to be widely distributed an'
planted elsewhere by experienced
| hands.
As the negroes and Indians wori
side by side on the farm and in the
shops their natural traits are conspicu-
ously illustrated. The Indian is the
quicker, the more agile on squirt
but his black brother has vastly more
staying power. The Indian has the
more able and nimble legs. but the
negro is better developed in the chest
and arms-all because of very obvious
reasons. Gen. Armstrong SAYS his best
students are those who work all day
and have only two hours for study
ut night. The same thing made MAN.
hood more robust in the fine type of
men who worked their way through
college and are to-day rather impatient
that aIl boys are not put to the school
OF adversely which they remember with
pride. Work and atmosphere of moral
refinement are doing much for these
picked representatives of the red and
black, and it is interesting to discover
that the day scholars who live
outside the institution--do not turn
out so well. One side of their life lets
them down too much.
! will not swamp you with mass of
detail about the industries here con-
Quoted, and managed with n great deal
of success when put to the test of
outside market. The home farm en-
ploys thirteen students all dag, with q
detail of forty-five who average one
and half days week; its products
are ten acres OF early peas, ten of Irish
patatoes, ninety of sweet potatoes, fif-
teen OF oats. two of cabbage and oni-
ons, two of spinach and kale; fourty-
four acres are seeded to clover. 166 to
corn-fodder, forty-six to rye-and ITO
acres are under cultivation in garden
and orchard. The Hemenway farm.
about five miles distant, has 112 acres
in corn, forty-three in wheat, LOG in
oats, eighty in clover. and two hun
dred in pasture.
The Huntington industrial works
saw-mill and wood working shop
where Is, 900, 900 feet of pine, poplar,
and oak, brought in RATS through the
canal of the Dismal swamp from tho
forests of North Carolina and Virginia,
have been worked up in the year; the
department. of household work, the car
ng for this great family of 600, which
offers a field for training that house
wives will appreciate; the dressmaking
md tailoring departments. where uni
'orms, dresses, and shirts are made;
,he printing office and birdery, which
mas created demand for colored
printers that can not be supplied-and
where four years are required for mas
tering the art of bookmaking, the knit
Iing-room with its Lamb knitters, that
afford means of self-support, and
tho quickness that piece
work always begets; the engineers de-
partment, the Indian training shops,
eight in all, giving instruction in as
as many trades Woodworking, cary
ing, carpentering, harness-making,
shoemaking, tinsmithing, painting, and
blacksmithng; the greenhouse. and
the garden-these all attract and in
struct the visitor. Boys and girls alike
learn to do those practical things that
fall by chance to the lot of people
fortunate enough to be country bred,
but have been too much sealed book
to men and women otherwise encom-
passed in early life.
1t is quite time to ingraft this sort of
common sense on the public school
system, to secure the health, intelli-
gence. and greater progress of all our
youth.